July 2010

07/31/2010

A few of the photos that caught my fancy on a relatively slow news day, July 31, 2010.

-- MIKE KELLY

Two cars are engulfed in flames following a three-car collision near
Caledon Friday. Five people were injured when the vehicles collided on
Hwy. 10 Saturday between Olde Base Line Rd. and The Grange Sideroad. TIM MULLIN PHOTO

Dogs, wearing hats and sunglasses, are used by their owner to beg for coins in Manila on July 22, 2010. The Philippine government said it would give money directly to poor families in an effort to fight a sharp rise in the number of Filipinos enduring severe hunger. NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images

07/30/2010

A massive oil spill following the pipeline fire at the port in Dalian, in Liaoning province, China, July 17, 2010 is believed to be much worse than first thought. From 60,000 to 90,000 tons of oil have estimated to have been spilled into the Yellow Sea.

Local fishermen clean up oily sludge by from the contaminated beaches at Nanhaitun, Weitang Bay. (Jiang He/Greenpeace/MCT)

07/29/2010

A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Ga. Monday July 26, 2010. The director of the preserve says it is the first time in 40 years that a zedonk has been born there. (AP Photo/The Times,Tom Reed)

A wild civet eats ripe Arabika coffee fruits at a coffee plantation producing the expensive Luwak coffee in Bangli district on Bali island on July 21, 2010. Luwak coffeee beans come from the ripest fruit eaten by the cat-like creature, digested and excreted in droppings. It is then washed, dried and ground. The mammal's digestion process gives the famed flavor of Luwak, the world's rarest and most expensive coffee. Indonesia's highest Islamic body on July 20, 2010 abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking Kopi Luwak. It had considered issuing a fatwa against the pricey brew, on the grounds it was unclean. A cup of Kopi Luwak go for 80,000 rupiah (8.83 USD) in plush Jakarta coffee shops while the beans cost up to 500 dollars per kilogramme. AFP PHOTO/SONNY TUMBELAKA

07/26/2010

A newly-born calf mooches grass from its mother at Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Sunday, July 11, 2010. According to news reports, wild animals are becoming desperate and entering human areas in search of food and water, as the forest area is decreasing due to heavy deforestation and human encroachment. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)